Common Mole Cricket

Description:

Common Mole crickets are dark brown in colour with a shiny thorax. They have characteristic forelegs. Their forelegs are board and turn outward for digging. When dug up, they do not leap away like other burrow-inhabiting insects but dig their way back underground with powerful strokes of the forelegs. The dirt is simply forced aside. Their organs to hear, the tympanic cavity, are also located on their forelegs.